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SUNY Cortland Red Dragons
Head Coach: Brad Bruhn
Years at School as head coach: 9th
Career Record at school: 107-48
Assistant Coaches: Jason Reynolds, Paul LeBlanc, Ian Clark
2009-2010 Dual Meet Record: 16-4
2009-2010 National Qualifiers and All-Americans:
133 Aljamain Sterling 4th
197 Martino Sottile 8th
174 Mike Ciaburri NQ
HWT Joe Murphy NQ
Returning Qualifiers and All-Americans:
133 Aljamain Sterling 4th in 2010
125 Dave Colagiovanni 2x NQ (125-2007, 133-2008)
HWT Corey James JUCO AA 7th in 2010
125 Jerad Lemke JUCO AA 4th in 2009
174 Dan Stieger JUCO NQ 2010
149 Andre Berry NAIA NQ 2010
Number of retuning wrestlers who competed in 2010 National Qualifier: 4
Top returning starters:
125 RSSR-Dave Colagiovanni 13-6, 2x NQ (2007, 2008)
133 SO-Sean Kempf 22-9, 3rd @ ECWC @ 125 in 2010
141 JR-Aljamain Sterling 27-8, 2009 & 2010 Conference runner-up, 2010 AA 4th place
141 JR-Mark Arcara 19-5, 2010 Conference 3rd place
149 JR-John Cataldo 8-6
157 So-Troy Sterling 18-7
165 SO-Jon Conroy 23-10
174/184 SO-Will Parks 19-9
174/184 SO-Alex Meyers 11-10
197 JR-Carl Korpi 25-7, Ranked 6th most of year in 2009-10
197/hwt S0-Jared Myrhberg 17-14, 4th @ ECWC @ 184 in 2010
Top incoming wrestlers:
125 Mike Rose Transfer from Springfield where he was 3rd @ their confereence
133 Brian Bistis 2x NJ state placer
133 Justin Hyde NY state qualifier
149 Andre Berry NAIA National Qualifier and NY HS state Placer
149 Jake Beichner NY state qualifier
157 Adam Willman NY state qualifier
157/65 James Ondris 4th in NY
165/74 William Maldonado Section 11 placer
174 Dan Stieger JUCO National Qualifier
HWT Corey James JUCO AA
HWT JTrenton Jones Section V runner-up
Outlook:
Lots of new faces will be in the Red Dragon line-up this season. We will be young and hungry. Good quality from top to bottom will help Cortland hang on to last year’s Empire championship. New weight classes for Colagiovanni (moving down to 125) and Sterling (moving up to 141) will finally get them away from one another. Both are seniors looking to finish with a big year and have been training hard all summer. Carl Korpi will be back at 197 this season. He had a great year beat some of the top guys in DIII until Sottile won the wrestle off and went on to become an All American. He could be on the verge of a big year. He will face very tough completion in the room form last years starting 184-pounder Jared Myrhberg. Jared struggled with the weight last season and looks much fresher coming into this season. Sean Kempf was 3rd in the ECWC at 125 last year and might look to move up to 133 to battle a few tough freshmen for the spot there. We return very good back-ups returning at 157, 165, 174, 184 for last year. They were close to starting last year and will get their chance now. They will be challenged by some new comers as well. 149 has three good kids that will battle in Junior John Cataldo and freshman Jake Beichner and Transfer Andre Berry. Berry was an NAIA national qualifier and Beichner was a NY state Qualifier. It will be an exciting battle. Two new heavyweights will anchor the lineup this season. Transfers’ Corey James and JTrenton Jones will comtend here. James was a NY State HS runner up and JUCO AA and has lots of college experience and Jones was a talented high school wrestler coming to us after a stint at a local JUCO as well.